/// Will the Gizmodo-iPhone 4 Caper Be the Lisa of Legal Vendettas?

The San Mateo County district attorney’s decision not to bring charges against Gizmodo or its parent company, Gawker Media, in the iPhone 4 prototype caper has left Apple in awkward position. As you may recall, Steve Jobs made it quite clear in an onstage interview at our eighth D: All Things Digital conference in 2009 that he wanted to punish the publication. “When this whole thing with Gizmodo happened, I got a lot of advice from people who said you’ve got to just let it slide,” Jobs said . “‘You shouldn’t go after a journalist because they bought stolen property and they tried to extort you.’ And I thought deeply about this, and I concluded the worst thing that could happen as we get big and we get a little more influence in the world, is if we change our core values and let it slide. I can’t do that. I’d rather quit.” Well, Jobs is still CEO, even though the DA has now let Gizmodo off the hook. So, as he said he wanted to, will Apple go after the online media site with a civil suit? Or is the company too busy with other legal matters to bother? Below video of Jobs’ talking at D8 about the Gizmodo situation, in full: [ See post to watch video ]

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